Firebird reviewed in Brazilian magazine

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Coleção Info – a Brazilian publication that focus on specific diferent subjects at each edition, just released a new edition focused on Databases. Firebird is in the list of reviewed products and got a final score of 7.4.

The major “faults” of Firebird, in the reviewer pov, is:

  • Installer – He says that there is too many things to read during the installation process (Ed: really?)
  • Lack of “default” GUI administration tool (users need to get third party tools for this)
  • Security – no support for cryptography

Strong points:

  • Full support from many programming languages
  • Full featured (transactions, procedures, etc.)
  • Very good thirdy party tools
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  • FB Community News
    March 25, 2006 10:12 am

    What were the other products and what were their scores?

  • Cantu
    March 25, 2006 12:39 pm

    Results here:

    Database reviewed:
    1 = SQL Server 2005 Express
    2 = Oracle 10G Express Edition
    3 = DB2 Express-C 8.2
    4 = MYSQL 5.0
    5 = PostgreSQL 8.1
    6 = FireBird 1.5.3 Classic Server

    BD Compat Install Feat Manag. Tools Lang. Security Total
    1 – – 8,5 10% – – 7,5 35% 7,5 35% 8,5 10% 8,0 10% 7,6
    2 8,0 20% 8,0 20% 8,5 30% – – 8,0 – – – – 8,4
    3 – – 8,4 10% – – 9,0 35% 8,5 35% 8,0 10% 7,5 10% 8,5
    4 – – 8,6 30% 8,5 50% – – 7,5 – – – – 8,3

    5 – – 7,0 10% – – 8,5 35% 8,5 35% 8,0 10% 8,5 10% 8,3
    6 – – 6,5 10% – – 6,5 35% 8,5 35% 8,0 10% 6,5 10% 7,4

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